Judith Curry
Climatologist; president of Climate Forecast Applications Network; chaired Georgia Tech's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from 2002 to 2013. Wrote the Climate Etc. blog from 2010 to 2026; author of Climate Uncertainty and Risk (2023).
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Their wordsPutting a tourniquet around our energy supply in the name of eliminating CO2 emissions is a much worse idea now than it was even a few years ago, and that seems to be widely recognized (even in Europe).
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Most of climate science has become focused on mega-modeling and politicking rather than thinking.
Their wordsBut most of climate science has become BORING . . . too much mega-modeling and politicking, and not enough thinking.
- 10 months earlier
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Their wordsThe combination of the DOE and Dessler report highlight areas of disagreement among climate scientists, and illustrates how weighting of different classes of evidence, addressing different topics, and different logical frameworks for linking evidence can lead to different conclusions.
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Their wordsI also checked in with members of the ACRIM science team, they continue to support high solar variability. Hence, the high-level conclusion in the DOE Report "Moreover, solar activity's contribution to the late 20th century warming might be underestimated" is justified.
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Their wordsThe combination of high amplitude natural variability plus short and inhomogeneous data sets imply low confidence in the detection and attribution of any trends.
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsChapter 9 on agriculture shows that increasing CO2 and warming is expected to be a net benefit to US agriculture
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U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate.
Their wordsChapter 12 concludes that U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays.
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Their wordsAlthough there is little to no link between extreme weather events and fossil-fueled warming (see the CWG Report), the U.S. currently has substantial vulnerabilities (and electric utility systems are hugely vulnerable to extreme weather events).
- 14 months earlier
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Their wordsHowever, climate scientists disagree about: How much warming is associated with our emissions Whether this warming is larger than natural climate variability.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAt that point, the IPCC lost any pretense of being independent or uninfluenced by politics.
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Their wordsReducing emissions will have little to no impact on extreme weather events.
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Their wordsWind & solar power is impairing grid reliability and increasing the cost of electricity.
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsEven if Net Zero objectives were achieved globally by 2050, the climate would continue to change from natural weather and climate variability: volcanic eruptions, solar effects, large-scale oscillations of ocean circulations, and other geologic processes.
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Their wordsThus, an increase in wealth provides much greater and much more certain protection against climate-related risks than emissions reduction.